In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations. — Peter Mandelson Copy Share Image
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious. — Habib Bourguiba Copy Share Image
In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school.… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Copy Share Image
True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
Frightening media messages...pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly.… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where the climate… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
Growing up in the U.S., I was certainly deeply aware of the power of American media, specifically Hollywood and television, in terms… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations.… — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension… — Carl Mydans Copy Share Image
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a… — Joshua Krook Copy Share Image
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“preoccupation with fantasies of success; exhibitionism and insatiable attention-getting maneuvers;” — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“Our passionate preoccupation with the sun, the stars and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
